Random Pic - Mushrooms

I was trolling some of my favorite sites for blog prompts and one had a random picture generator. I used to look at pictures in magazines and make up little stories about them. I haven’t done that in a long time and decided to try it again. The picture above is what came up.

The first thing I thought of was maybe a poem or two. Haiku is one of my favorite forms of poetry, so that was easy:

Mushroom or toadstool

Is a fungus among us

Either one can kill

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I also love fairytales and came up with a little poem for children:

7 little fairy houses

On the forest floor

Each one lived in all alone

Behind a hidden door

They sleep all day

And play at night

Because they love the moon

They write their names

On all the trees

With special Fairy Runes

Because they’re shy

Of humankind

You won’t see them about

Unless you learn

Their secret names

And softly bid them out:

Moonwind, Petal, Shimmer, Whisper, Leafkind, Star, Liana

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I doubt the mushrooms in the picture are the kind they serve in restaurants, but I LOVE sautéed

mushrooms in butter and garlic. I could eat them with almost any meal other than breakfast. Strike that, I would put them in an omelet with cheese. Hashbrowns on the side. And now I’m hungry…